December 18

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World Cultures Daily Round Up for 18 November 2006

Scribed by: Alyssa, Zach, Kirste,Tyler,Braden

Activities for today
  • Describe acitivies for class
  • The activities we did were taking notes from the projector.
  • We talk about marriage for the many classes of the Feudal Japan.
  • We discussed why warriors can't marry merchant daughters.
  • We had a picture of the day of a Zen Door. It said " DO NOT OPEN! THIS IS NOT AN ENTRANCE OR AN EXIT."
  • We talked about how no class in Feudal Japan can marry outside of their own social class.
  • We discussed that classes can't inter marry.
  • We had people doing weidrd things in a door that you couldn't enter or exit.

Concepts covered in class with brief summary
  • Describe important concepts covered in class
  • Important cancepts were the marrying of the classes of old school Japan.
  • We took notes on Tokugawa Leyasu (1543-1616).
  • We took notes on the Tokugawa Shogunate Period.
  • Japan close off all trade except the Dutch and the Chinese.
  • In 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry opened up Japan to Western trade and the US wanted more trading partners
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Assignments for tomorrow or later
  • Describe assignments made in class today
  • We have to read out of the Red Book; Chapter 19 Fairly Short.
  • On Wednesday there is a Japanese Geography Quiz!external image F3601.gif
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Additional resources and interesting items related to class today